The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-08
IN GENERAL.

IN GENERAL.
4 new military company with 80 mont crs
has been organized at Lewiston.
Capt. John Bishop. the oldest resident of
IIarpswell. died December ,. at the age Of %
years.
Boston papers speak of senator Frye> term
as nearly out. 1t does rot expire until March.
1889.
Hon. }. Manchester Haynes, member for
Maine of the Republican National COMMITTEES
departed for Washington Thursday to attend
the meeting of the committee in Washington.
Dec. s.
All federal offices in Maine of consequence
are now filled by Democrats. The Skowhegan
postmastership and the Saco dictatorship tin-
ish the list. 1t is a clean sweep.
City Marshall Crockett and posse boarded
the schooner Pearl in Rockland harbor ut midi
night Thursday night and seized thirteen bar
rels of wh>key, one barrel Of Bass ale and
two cases of pale ale.
The smuggling of liquors across the Maine
border at Nanceboro' has been carried Oh more
extensively this season than ever before.
Woodman, True Il Co.. dry goods dealers,
of Portland. offer their creditors II ID cents on
dollar. This is an advance of : IL cents on
the offer recently submitted by the firm. and it
is expected that the creditors will accept the
offer.
Mr.. l.. .. Achorn. young lawyer of Boston.
is the winner of the prize of $50 for the best
story, sent to the Boston Evening Record
Nearly 200 stories were submitted. MIR. Aciiorn
is graduate of Bowdon College.
The Maine Central Railroad Relief A.socia-
ton entered Dec 1>t upon its first day, eNiS-
tence as an active corporation with 100 mem-
bcrs, confidently expecting this number will lie
swelled to go during the present month.
At half past two O'Clock. Thursday morning.
fire broke out in the lumber mills of Chas. T..
Todd at Calais. destroying two gang mills and
one planning mill. The loss is estimated at 500
600; partially covered by insurance.
Charles 5. Craig, of China. has quite Il
curiosity i'll the shape of four skens of yarn
dog, every thread of which is jet black. After
being carded and spun it weighed two and one
fourth pounds. 1t spun as easily and well as
any wool.
The New England Ship Building company of
Bath notified its employees last week that re-
each mans pay. The knights of Labor decided
to quit work in consequence. The company
then acceded to the demands of the Knights,
| and the men resumed work at the Old wages.
Thursday morning.
The National Soldiers Home, ToguS, is tax
ed to its utmost capacity to accommodate vetcr-
| ans applying for admission, and such is its
crowded condition That it has been necessary
to refuse admissions for time. There are
more inmates at the home than ever before,
the number now being 200G. Nincty-tive are
obliged to sleep on mattresses placed on the
floor.
The committee to make the annual examine
tion of the accounts and securities of the State
Treasury has been appointed as follows: Hon.
S. G. Hatch, Bangor; Hons. Eliot Wood, Win
throp and George NJ. Warren, of Castine, of
the Governors Council; Hon. Augustus r.
BiXby, of Skowhegan aud Thomas w. Porter
Esq, of Burlington. The work of examine
ton will commence early in January.
An effort will be made to get contract for
government steel cruiser to be built at Bath
and if successful an iron shipbuilding plant
will at once be established. A steel cruiser to
build means $2,O00,0OO, and good mathenlati-
clans figure this upas yielding 10 per cent. inter-
est OIL the amount of capital required to fur
nish and equip the plant.
The Board of the Maine Baptist Missionary
Convention met at Waterville last week and
appropriated $4,000 for feeble churches and
edifices and repairing old ones. The societies
at Saccarappa and Bar Harbor are among those
! to be benefited by the latter fund.
A prominent citizen of Waterville interested
in the Somerset railroad says the next legisa-
ture will be asked to grant subsidy of $4,000
a mile to extend the Somerset railroad to the
Megantic. He argues enthusiastically in favor
OF the scheme. and says there is no reason why
Maine should not aid in building railroads in
sparely settled districts as well as Canada,
which subsidies the Canadian Pacific.
The Sagadahoc House, Exchange Hotel and
Bath Hotel, all of Bath, were closed last week,
the two latter from financial embarrassment
and the Sagadahoc in consequence of some
property complications. There is but one hotel
open now in Bath and that is filled with per-
manent boarders. 1t is expected the Sagadahoc
will be reopened at an early day.